General Motors is poised to hire 8,000 new tech employees this year as it continues to shift its focus toward battery-electric vehicles and software.
In a statement sent to various media outlets this week, GM’s Innovation Accelerator director, Jessika Lora, said the impending tech hires are indicative of GM’s ambition to deliver more innovative, technologically advanced products.
“Our commitment to hiring 8,000 tech employees in 2022 is an exciting sign of GM’s momentum, our quest to innovate technology with impact, and our focus on helping people find their purpose in the workplace,” Lora said.
Some of these hires will work for GM directly, while others will be funneled into GM Defense, the automaker’s wholly-owned military vehicle subsidiary. Speaking to The Detroit Free Press, GM spokeswoman Arianna Kughn said the “responsibilities for all 8,000 jobs are not yet determined.” That said, all of these new tech hires will be encouraged to follow the automaker’s ‘Work Appropriately’ guideline introduced last year, which allows employees to work from home most days, but go into the office when they feel like it or when doing work that requires a physical presence.
GM is currently transitioning into a more tech-focused company, implementing plans to offer software subscriptions services for both vehicles and consumers’ homes. The automaker will also need more tech talent to help drive its battery-electric vehicle transition, which will see it introduce 30 new EVs by mid-decade and completely eliminate emissions-producing passenger vehicles by 2035. Other GM projects that may demand more tech talent include its Ultifi charging software system, OnStar, Ultra Cruise and Cruise autonomous vehicle subsidiary.
The automaker’s new BrightDrop sub-brand, which is focused on eco-friendly delivery solutions for logistics companies like FedEx, will also likely benefit from this upcoming wave of tech hires. In addition to electric vans like the BrightDrop EV410 and EV600, the brand will offer fleet management software for BrightDrop vehicles and other BrightDrop products as well.
In a recent interview with the Free Press, GM’s director of software program and solution management, Gary Cygan, said the automotive software sector has been somewhat neglected in recent years and thus is ripe for improvement.
“Automotive is the next frontier of massive disruption from a software perspective,” Cygan said.
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Software subscriptions services for both vehicles and consumers homes???? Fat chance I’d utilize any optional GM program. They’ve long proven to have unreliable products and terrible customer service.
EDS 2.0.
By looking at the photos above it appears that being female is a priority
For any folks applying, try to get the job with GM defense. It may require you to be a US citizen so you can get a secret clearance. Technical skills plus a clearance can provide alot of opportunity. Nice thing about these jobs is that they cant be offshored.
Yep, if you cannot get a DOD security clearance forget it. Hopefully a lot of veterans can get these who already hold or have held those.
Massive hiring this month to celebrate the anniversary of the massive firing three years ago.
Whoopee – who cares when I can’t even drive my new Savana passenger van because the fuel pump control module went out at 3000 miles and it has been sitting outside at the dealership now for 2 months – unusable. You can hire a million new workers and still can’t get your parts situation ironed out. That’s what happens when you depend on China. etc, making your parts…..Why not build a plant for parts here – more expensive, sure, but more American workers and a consistent supply for your loyal American customers. I would pay twice as much and more to buy American made parts. Typical crisis management scenario – exactly like our Brandonized government
Richard – I think you’ll see much more “on-shoring” coming up. Biden is a “car guy”, and a union guy. He wants to see more on-shoreing for cars, computer chips, and anything else where jobs can be brought back, to help with jobs, increased pay, and to help working people. I think we’ll see a very useful intersection of corporate interests (improved, more reliable, supply chains), and more jobs, better paying jobs, for working people. Corporate CEO’s (GM, Intel), unions, and state and federal government working toward the same goals. A rare confluence of interests, and we’ll all benefit.
Your are one of the dreamers. Biden is the biggest flake – wait – 2nd biggest flake in history – following obama. If you think Biden gives one dam for America or it’s LEGAL citizens I applaud you for thinking the past year under his inept leadership has been a bed of roses and and Americas “revival” – obama has indeed fundamentally transformed America into a 3rd world country – and stated also that America is “no longer a Christian nation”. These communist principles, paid by George Soros are tenants of todays morphed democratic party and Joe Brandon is simply being told what to do by the idiots mentioned above. You sir, have your head in the proverbial sand. Unbelievable what you and some others actually are thinking – that this buffoon gives a dam – He gets his son a multi million dollar front job in the Ukraine and thinks that benefits us or the USA? I could go on forever with what this idiot is doing to the country but this is enough time spent on people like you who don’t listen anyway…..how do you like the millions of new neighbors coming across our open borders now? Thiefs, rapists, gang leaders, drug dealers, murders, drunk drivers, terrorists, etc – all getting free stuff and endangering legal citizens lives – get a live and find out what the real world is now — you live in the past when the democrat party was for the “little guy” They have morphed into the devil incarnate sucking us dry – watch this post get tossed out.
You are closed minded and stuck in the 1940’s. The future is STEM… This is a car forum, let’s talk about the great GM cars not your closed minded politics. I support GM in hiring onshore engineering experts, I am one of them.
I am a big time gearhead and fan of GM but if you think, after seeing what has happened to America in the last 12 months is a great thing then I applaud you for your unwavering dedication to the party of hate and inclusion and your stupidity. I am the most open minded individual you would ever meet – it is closed minded dems who spin everything around to make a conservative take the blame. I look at facts, not emotions or personal preferences. I made a statement about America being Brandonized. What set me off was CLC telling me how great BRandon is doing/going to do – which I know for a fact is one big lie.\ and it infuriates me to no end after watching that miserable scum bag and his thugs steal a most important election. If you can’t see what is happening in America I feel sorry for you. Good luck and respond to your hearts content – I won’t hear it and am done here. Go Brandon, Go Brandon, Go Brandon
None of these new hires will be for quality control or upgraded customer service.